Heraldic collection
Reference code
WIT/03
Title
Heraldic collection
Date
c. 1830-1835
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff.iv + 127 (formerly fols. 65-202 in a larger collection).
Folio.
Half leather binding, dark green, with marbled boards. Loosely inserted, fols. ii,iii, two engraved plates of arms of noble Venetian families, Arme Overo Insegne di Nobili Venetiani (Giacomo Didini, Venice, 1656). Signature of Thomas Willement, 1830, on the front pastedown.
Folio.
Half leather binding, dark green, with marbled boards. Loosely inserted, fols. ii,iii, two engraved plates of arms of noble Venetian families, Arme Overo Insegne di Nobili Venetiani (Giacomo Didini, Venice, 1656). Signature of Thomas Willement, 1830, on the front pastedown.
Scope and content
Heraldic collections of Thomas Willement (1786-1871); c. 1830-5. Printed shield outlines containing the following entries by Willement (many pages of blank outlines):-
(1) Excerpt, in trick, made by Willement in 1832 from a roll (afterwards known as Willement's roll; now BL Egerton MS 3713), then owned by the Rev. John Newling, prebendary of Lichfield. Willement subsequently published the roll as A Roll of Arms of the Reign of Richard the Second (1834). See Aspilogia, I (1950), 71-2. fols. 40-59;-
(2) Arms, in trick, of foreign cities, towns, etc., copied from Jacques Le Roy, Castella et Praetoria Nobilium Brabantiae (Leiden, 1699). fols. 60-1;-
(3) Arms, in trick, of foreign cities, religious orders, etc., from A.L.Millin, Antiquités Nationales (1790-9). fol. 62;-
(4) Painted coats (48 shields) copied from part of a vellum roll then in the possession of Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, 8th Bt., 1833 (later owned by Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter; see Aspilogia I (1950), 14). fols. 63-4;-
(5) Arms on the monument of Alix, daughter of Geoffrey, son of Henry II, wife of Peter of Dreux, Duke of Brittany, and their daughter Yolande, in the church of the Abbey of Villeneuve.See G.Lobineau, Histoire de Bretagne, I (1707), 214. Pedigree (fol. 64v) extracted from Lobineau. fols. 64v-7;-
(6) Fourteen shields in trick, from drawings inserted in a scriptural MS, temp. Edw.IV?, owned by George Lucy of Charlecote, 1835. fol. 67;-
(7) Nineteen shields, in trick, with a small general plan, from stained glass in a roundel in the ceiling of the dormitory of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen. fol. 68;-
(8) Six shields, in trick. fol. 89;-
(9) Four shields in trick. fol. 127.
Contents list, fol. iv.
(1) Excerpt, in trick, made by Willement in 1832 from a roll (afterwards known as Willement's roll; now BL Egerton MS 3713), then owned by the Rev. John Newling, prebendary of Lichfield. Willement subsequently published the roll as A Roll of Arms of the Reign of Richard the Second (1834). See Aspilogia, I (1950), 71-2. fols. 40-59;-
(2) Arms, in trick, of foreign cities, towns, etc., copied from Jacques Le Roy, Castella et Praetoria Nobilium Brabantiae (Leiden, 1699). fols. 60-1;-
(3) Arms, in trick, of foreign cities, religious orders, etc., from A.L.Millin, Antiquités Nationales (1790-9). fol. 62;-
(4) Painted coats (48 shields) copied from part of a vellum roll then in the possession of Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, 8th Bt., 1833 (later owned by Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter; see Aspilogia I (1950), 14). fols. 63-4;-
(5) Arms on the monument of Alix, daughter of Geoffrey, son of Henry II, wife of Peter of Dreux, Duke of Brittany, and their daughter Yolande, in the church of the Abbey of Villeneuve.See G.Lobineau, Histoire de Bretagne, I (1707), 214. Pedigree (fol. 64v) extracted from Lobineau. fols. 64v-7;-
(6) Fourteen shields in trick, from drawings inserted in a scriptural MS, temp. Edw.IV?, owned by George Lucy of Charlecote, 1835. fol. 67;-
(7) Nineteen shields, in trick, with a small general plan, from stained glass in a roundel in the ceiling of the dormitory of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen. fol. 68;-
(8) Six shields, in trick. fol. 89;-
(9) Four shields in trick. fol. 127.
Contents list, fol. iv.
Creator
Willement, Thomas (1786-1871), stained glass and heraldic artist and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/346